Headlight for street-cars.



J. FLEGK. HEADLIGHT FOR STREET CARS.

APPLICATION FILED .APR.25, 1913.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

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HEADLIGHT FOB. STREET CARS. APPLICATION FILED APR.25, 1913 1,089,200, Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

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mul wll I JOHN FLECK, 0F TABENTUM, PENNSYLVANIA.

HEADLIGHT FOR STREET-CARS ineaeoe.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Application filed April 25, 1913. Serial No. 763,627.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J 011x FLEGK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tarentum, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Headlights for Street- Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to headlight controls for street cars, the object in view being to provide a headlight mounted for pivotal movement on a vertical axis, combined with means under the control of the motorman or driver for swinging said lamp to one side or the other, in order to illuminate the desired portion of the roadway in front of the car.

One of the principal aims of the present invention is to provide a novel form of control box for the pedal operated plungers, by which the headlight is turned, whereby a combined closure or guard is provided for said plungers, and at the same time a heel rest for the operator which greatly facilitates the operation of said plungers.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

Tn the drawings: Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section through one end of a car, showing the lamp controlling mechanism applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail ver tical section through the control box, show ing the same closed in full lines and open in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section taken adjacent to the plungers and cross head. Fig. l is a perspective view of the control box open.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the forward portion of the platform of an ordinary street railway car, and 2 the dash extending upwardly from the platform. In front of the dash is arranged a headlight or lamp 3 which is mounted to turn on a vertical axis, the lamp 3 being for that purpose provided with a downwardly extending sleeve at at the bottom thereof, forming a socket which receives the upper reduced extremity 5 of a vertical rock shaft 6. The lamp 3 is secured fixedly to the shaft 6 by means of a binding screw 7. The shaft 6 is journaled in a bearing 7 fastened to the front of the car by bracket arms 8, as shown,

and at a suitable point the shaft 6 is pro vided with a ball race 9 fast thereon and containing a circular series of anti-friction balls 10 which more in a cup or race 11 at the upper extremity of the bearing 7, thus enabling the lamp 3 to be turned easily.

On its lower end, the shaft 6 is provided with a bevel gear wheel 12 which meshes with and is driven by a corresponding bevel gear wheel 13 on the forward end of a rock shaft 14, the last-named shaft being mounted in suitable bearing hangers 15 secured to the bottom of the platform 1. In order to prevent longitudinal movement of the shaft 14, the latter is provided with collars 16 adjustable by means of set screws 17 and hearing against the opposite extremities of the hangers 15, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

At its rear end, the shaft 1a is provided with a cross head or two-armed lever 18 having the opposite extremities thereof slot ted, as shown at 17, to receive pins 20 at the lower extremities of a pair of plunger-s 21, the lower ends of which are slotted to embrace the opposite ends of the cross head or lever 18. These plungers 21 work up and down through guides 22 secured to or mount ed within the platform, each of said guides 22 being shown as provided with an attaching flange, by which it is fastened to the platform. At its upper end, each plunger is provided with a head 2%, while under said head is arranged a coiled expansion spring 25 encircling the plunger and hearing at its lower end against the platform, or the top of the guide The projecting upper portions of the plunger-s above the level of the platform are inolosed by a control box which extends from the floor upwardly a suitable distance to entirely inclose and contain the plungers 21 and the heads 2a thereof. This box comprises a continuous front wall 26 and end walls 27 of the same height as the wall 26, the box as a whole being provided with one or more bottom flanges 28, by means of which the box as a whole may be bolted to the platform or floor. The rear side of the box comprises an integral or fixed portion 29, and a pivoted and folding portion 30 which is hinged, as shown at 31, to the top of the fixed section 29 of the rear wall.

Hinged to the section 30, at the point 32, is the top 33 of the box, which top, when the box is thrown open, forms a support for the pivoted section 30, the last named section being adapted to support the heel of the operator as he presses the ball or toe portion of his foot upon one or the other of the heads 24:. When the lamp turning mechanism is not in use at one end of the car, the box is completely closed by means of the pivoted sections 30 and 33, and this prevents persons standing on the rear platform from pressing upon the plungers and operating the lamp turning mechanism at that end of the car.

W hat is claimed is:

In a headlight for street cars, a lamp, a vertical lamp supporting shaft journaled to turn in a bearing on the car, a rock shaft geared to the lamp shaft and extending rearwardly therefrom, a cross head fast on said rock shaft, foo-t actuated plungers opera JOHN FLEOK. lVitnesses Martinis THIMONS, ARNOLD THIMONS, J r.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the iiommissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. C. 

